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 As seen online at www.bookreview.com Reference - Sex and Sexuality - Health and Fitness Title: EveryBody - Preventing HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Young Teens, Revised Edition Author: Deborah Schoeberlein Rating: Excellent! Publisher: RAD Educational Programs Reviewed by: Heather Froeschl How do you teach adolescents to save their own lives? How do you reach through the ideas they have about STDs and their own omnipotence? "EveryBody" is THE curriculum for students in grades 5-9, about HIV, AIDS and STD prevention. This is a powerful guide for teachers, counselors and parents to utilize in making a difference in, and more than likely saving, the lives of today's youth. Communication, in the fight against HIV and other communicable diseases, is essential between child and adult, teacher and student, and all individuals dealing in possibly unsafe behaviors. How is communication learned? "EveryBody" opens the doors to communication. The activities, meticulously described, spark discussions and discussions encourage empowerment in the individual. Many lessons are shared in "EveryBody": the specifics of STDs and prevention methods, the generalities of stereotypes, risk taking, reduction and elimination, and so much more. Students will come away with a better understanding of these topics and just as important, a better understanding of themselves. Some adults may think that "EveryBody" goes beyond what is expected for a 5th-9th grade curriculum. However, "EveryBody" is developmentally appropriate and extensive research shows that is does indeed meet the needs of today's adolescents. Every year in the U.S., half of all new HIV infections occur among people under the age of 25. One in four of new infections occur among those between the ages of 13 and 20. Isn't it best to empower our youth before they become a statistic? The fact is that the majority of American adolescents are sexually active by 12th grade. This is life threatening behavior. Addressing the factors head on is the only way to prevent fatal mistakes. The curriculum that "EveryBody" is, is not lecture and testing, but rather it is innovative and connected to scientific theory. Students act out the lessons and in essence, become the subject matter. For example, when marker ink, representing infectious bodily fluids, makes its way from student to student, they see point blank, how easily they can become infected, and learn how to prevent that from happening. A fairly simple exercise that will hit home and, in context, will get the message across that HIV prevention is a very serious matter. The lessons are well written, comprehensive and easily comprehended. The curriculum is one that should be mandatory in all middle schools. Our youth need to learn responsibility for their health and as a parent, I would rather these lessons not be learned the hard way. 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Michael. 1071. Medical Management of HIV Infection, by John G. Bartlett. 1072. Latino Truck Driver Trade: Sex and HIV in Central America, by Jacobo Schifter. 1073. From Knowledge to Practice: STD Control and HIV Prevention, by Kathy Attawell, Heiner Grosskurth. 1074. My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home, by Amber L. Hollibaugh. 1075. EveryBody: Preventing HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Young Teens, by Deborah Schoeberlein. 1075. EveryBody: Preventing HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Young Teens, by Deborah Schoeberlein. 2000. RAD Educational Programs, PO Box 1433, Carbondale, CO 81623. 140p., illus. ISBN 0-9679256-0-6. $35.00. (Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Teenagers; HIV Prevention) In 1992, Schoeberlein founded the nonprofit organization called Redefining Actions and Decision (RAD) Educational Programs expressly for the purpose of developing and implementing interactive HIV education. EveryBody is now the featured curriculum of a 5-year federally funded national dissemination project. She believes "that HIV prevention requires a radical approach"..."needing education that is compassionate and flexible, explicit and honest, direct and ambitious." The 24 sequential student-centered activities with guiding questions, step-by-step directions, assessment measures and lesson extensions provide an extremely successful and powerful HIV/STD education curriculum for 5th to 9th grade students. The first 6 chapters cover developmental issues, using the text, recommended sequences of the activities, information about HIV and AIDS, information on STDs, and information on alcohol and other drugs. The activities make up the rest of the book covering bill of rights and responsibilities, building bodies, cells, bacteria and viruses, condom boxes, decision making, doorways, emotional and physical safety, gloves, HIV antibody test, HIV mutation, HIV replication, illegal drugs and HIV/STD, It could happen to me, level of risk, media messages, pennies, purple dye, risk-taking, social situations, STDS and pregnancy, talking about condoms with older children, talking about condoms with young teens, talking risk elimination and risk reduction and walk like activity. This is an excellent book that has received international recognition. It is highly recommended for all school libraries as well as public and academic curriculum libraries. It will bother some individuals who do not like this type of sex education to be taught to their children but this is one of the finest books of its kind that this reviewer has seen. Social Studies Educator EveryBody: Preventing HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Young Teens, Revised Edition, 2001 by Deborah Schoeberlein. For fifth through ninth grade students, EveryBody offers an enlightened educational approach to the prevention of AIDS and HIV infections as well as other sexually transmitted diseases. The book is really a curriculum for HIV and sexually transmitted disease prevention centered around national Science and Health Education Standards. The twenty-four sequential, student-centered activities engage young learners in active learning through modular activities that include guiding questions, step-by-step directions, assessment measures, and lesson extensions. The program uses the premise that informed skillful adolescents are capable of making healthy decisions to prevent HIV infections. It teaches disease prevention in context with the deeper issues of how 5th-9th graders live their lives, and shows that the only way to slow and stop AIDS is to know about risk elimination and risk reduction. Communication spawns prevention through healthy choices, responsible behaviors, and self-awareness. EveryBody is a developmentally appropriate program that will empower young people to make wise decisions and protect themselves from the risks of HIV infection and sexually transmitted diseases. |